Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Russia - the country of "addicted" innovators


In fact, the vast majority of participants in an innovative industry in Russia has transformed to become "addicted", where as "drugs" are the low cost funds. These investments are generally fairly easy to obtain: State control is formal, and as a result almost always in favor of the written report. By such an environment people will quickly get used to, lose their skills, looking primarily at the budget, complain about the circumstances and constantly require new appropriations. The situation is very similar to life with an addict: the more money you give, the more his health was getting worse. Let me give you another example. Sufficiently well-known expert in the field of innovative business I once told a very interesting and instructive history. When the Russian Venture Company (RVC) has announced a tender in which the winners later received about 0.5 billion U.S. dollars of public funds, he was asked to enter in the application as an expert, and he even helped establish a pool of projects for one fund, participated in this competition. However, subsequently, after the receipt of federal resources, and his services, and from all submitted projects at once refused, asking, however, formally of the fund does not go away. According to my friend, the previous was only need for cover, and the money most quickly, in a subsequent focused on solving their own problems and not so poor holding. Should be noted that the new leadership of RMC is a much more accurate and balanced policy, but the Russian taxpayer money still sorry. Today in Russia there are more than 50 venture capital funds, and their total capital is, according to various estimates, from 2 to 5 billion U.S. dollars. Unfortunately, most of them are properly called private equity funds, since prefer to invest only in the later stages of company development, innovation when it is difficult to call. Of course there are exceptions, but few of them. Amazing picture is emerging with various grants and programs of the Ministry of Education and Science in the field of innovation. Russian government invests here considerable. However, if someone familiar with the criteria for determining the winners, then were surprised to realize - none of the leading young scientists, nor the most advanced innovative business virtually no chance of winning, because everything is determined by a list of formal characteristics, such as the number of Doctors participating in the project. But my experience, alas, have long said: The more, the probability of obtaining a good result below. In general, from all of the above begs the sad conclusion: with few exceptions the bulk of existing institutions in Russia, forming the national innovation infrastructure (universities, foundations, industrial parks, business incubators etc.), mutated and unable to participate in a real process of innovation. 
 
 
Удивительная картина складывается с различными грантами и программами министерства образования и науки в области инноваций. Инвестиции в последние годы, надо отдать должное, правительство направляет сюда немалые. Однако если кто-то ознакомится с критериями определения победителей, то с большим удивлением поймёт – ни у ведущих молодых учёных, ни у самых продвинутых инновационных бизнесменов практически нет ни одного шанса на выигрыш, потому что всё определяется перечнем формальных признаков, как, например, число докторов наук, участвующих в проекте. Но мой опыт, увы, давно уже говорит: чем их больше, тем вероятность получения хорошего результата ниже.
В целом, из всего вышесказанного напрашивается печальный вывод: за редким исключением основная часть существующих в России институтов, формирующих национальную инновационную инфраструктуру (вузы, фонды, технопарки, бизнес-инкубаторы и др.), мутировала и не в состоянии участвовать в реальном инновационном процессе.
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